Manfred Lee
(1905-1971) Novelist. Manfred Lee was born in Brooklyn, New York. He wrote under the pseudonym, Ellery Queen, with his cousin Frederic Dannay. Mr. Lee lived in Mount Vernon, New York.
County: Westchester
Maxwell “Max” Alan Lerner
(1902-1992) Writer, journalist. Max Lerner died in Manhattan, New York.
Howard Fast
(1914-2003) Writer. Howard Fast was born in Manhattan, New York, and died in Old Greenwich, Connecticut. He lived, in the early 1940s, in Tarrytown, New York. He also lived in Manhattan, New York.
John P Marquand
(1893-1960) Writer, novelist. John Phillips Marquand spent part of his childhood in Rye, New York.
Maxwell Geismar
(1909-1979) Literary critic, biographer. Maxwell Geismar taught at Sarah Lawrence College for many years.
John Habberton
19th century playwright, novelist, and editor. Born in Brooklyn. He had little formal education, but learned to be a printer through practical experience gained before he was 20. From 1862 to 1865 he served as a private in the Union Army, and at the end of the Civil War got a job in a New … Continued
Margaret Halsey
Writer. “With Malice Toward Some”
Dashiell Hammett
(1894-1961) Writer. Dashiell Hammett was born in Saint Mary’s County, Maryland and died in New York, New York.
Tom Heggen
Writer. “Mr. Roberts”
Lillian Hellman
(1905-1984) Playwright, writer. “The Children’s Hour” (1934), “Days to Come” (1936), “The Little Foxes” (1939), “Toys In The Attic” (1960), and others. Lived in Manhattan.